The Crystal_The Things You Can Accomplish in One Light Cycle_The Duchess_The Biggest Cookie
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The Crystal
"Present time!” Grandma announced.“Yay!” I said and sat down on the floor.“Here you go, Megan,” Grandma said, grabbed a big present off the floor, and handed me it. “I thought you might need this.”“Thank you,” I said and tore the wrapping paper off frantically. “It’s a blender.”“I figure you needed a new one after that squirrel ran in and knocked the old one off, shattering it.”“Well, thank you… you gave new meaning to the season of giving.”“This one is for you.”“Thank you.” Keith opened his gift, wearing his Rick and Morty Christmas sweater. “It’s a new tablet, thank you.”“Welcome.”“This one’...
The Things You Can Accomplish in One Light Cycle
Sylvar took the last watch before dawn, allowing her to be up when the sun rose. She heard rustling behind her; it was Nuvo, awake, stretching. Their eyes met. Crawling out of her bedroll, Nuvo joined Sylvar at the log in front of the long-gone fire. She rested her head on her shoulder; Sylvar placed her hand on her kneewww.onedoor.cc. They sat in silence as the sun slowly inched upward in the sky.“Today’s the day.” Sylvar spoke softly to avoid waking the other two. Nuvo lifted her head, a solemn look. “You ready?” Her tongue explored the grooves of her teeth. “I never feel ready.” Nuvo glanced ...
The Duchess
The duchess’s hands were covered in blood.She hid them under her shawl, but the shawl was bleeding too, dripping blood from the beating heart it was wrapped around. The duchess ran out of the king’s bedchamber, stumbled down one of the servants’ passages to the kitchen and ran out one of the back doors where the king’s horse was waiting.The duchess’s white hair, usually up in a tidy bun, trailed behind her. It too was stained.The duchess climbed up on the horse, ignoring her aches and pains, not caring she must ride without a saddle. The horse galloped away, just as her son, the king, burst ou...
The Biggest Cookie
“This was it. I could practically taste the sweet victory. My sister and I were just about to set a new record for the largest cookie ever. How, you ask?”“I didn’t say anything.”“I’d love to explain.” The strange boy continued as if I hadn’t said a thing. Or rather, as if I had said a different thing. “Of course, baking a huge cookie was tricky because the oven wasn’t big enough, and it took so long to mix up all the dough that it was hard to make sure the first batch was still good by the time the fiftieth one was ready to join the group. Plus my sister and I were doing this all on our own, s...